What Does the Term Response Rate Mean When it Comes to Cancer Treatment?

Executive Summary

The term response rate is used in cancer research studies and articles on cancer treatments.
In this article, we explain what this term means.

Introduction

Articles on cancer will frequently use the term “response rate”; however, they usually do so without defining the term. Part of the problem in interpreting the effectiveness of cancer treatments is that oncologists, researchers, and cancer centers use terms that do not measure the outcome but instead focus on an intermediate endpoint.

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